This lot is offered without reserve.
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ELIAS S. DAVID
TWO NEAR EASTERN CHALCEDONY SEALS
CIRCA 7TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.
細節
TWO NEAR EASTERN CHALCEDONY SEALS
CIRCA 7TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.
Including a Neo-Babylonian conoid, with a worshipper before an altar with the symbols of Nabu and Marduk, a sun above; and a Greco-Persian scaraboid, engraved in the a globolo style with a reclining zebu; both perforated
Larger: .15/16 in. (2.5 cm.) high
來源
with Elias S. David (1891-1969), New York; thence by descent.
注意事項
This lot is offered without reserve.
拍品專文
For a similar Greco-Persian depiction of a zebu in the a globolo style, see pl. 986, pp. 348, 356 in J. Boardman, Greek Gems and Finger Rings: Early Bronze Age to Classical.